There was something in the air that night

Air Quality Data

In honor of Canada’s Clean Air Day yesterday, we’d like to highlight some air quality datasets.

• AirNow

• BreezoMeter

• GHGSat

• NYC.gov Environment and Health Data Portal

• Skymet Weather

Survey

Foresight Data is seeking survey responses from venture investors. What are your top challenges in sourcing, managing and analyzing deals?

Fill out this 3-min / 10-question survey about your tech challenges and unmet tool needs and get a $10 Blue Bottle Coffee gift certificate and the report generated from responses. Survey Link

M&A

• Accenture acquired Nextira (cloud-native innovation).

• Databricks acquired bit.io (serverless postgres).

• Finsemble and Glue42 merged to create interop.io.

• SymphonyAI acquired 1010data (decision science solutions).

*transactions have been announced but may not be closed

Fundraising

• Ariga (database schema management) raised $18M across a Series A and Seed led by Tiger Global and TLV Partners.

• Beehive AI (customer data analysis) raised $5.1M in a Seed round led by Valley Capital Partners.

• Course5 Intelligence (data analytics and insights) raised $53M in a round led by Nuvama (second close) and 360 One Asset Management (first close).

• Digibee (iPaaS) raised $60M in a Series B led by Goldman Sachs.

• Instabase (process automation) raised $45M at a $2B valuation in a Series C led by Tribe Capital.

• LlamaIndex (LLM data framework) raised $8.5M in a Seed round led by Greylock.

People Moves, Promotions, and Appointments

• Fiona Bassett joined FTSE Russell as CEO.

• Larry Black joined Wilshire Indexes as CMO.

• David Boatwright joined Mercer as Head of Technology Strategy for Mercer Global Investments.

• Matt Coburn joined WorkFusion as VP of Data Science.

• Nej D'jelal joined LSEG as Group Head of Workspace Platform.

• Ronald Diamond joined the Advisory Board of Fin Capital.

• David Haberman was promoted to VP, Business Intelligence at Publicis Health Media.

• Chris Heusler was appointed President of S&P Global Sustainable1.

• Sherry Li-Frucher was promoted to Head of SAP.iO at SAP.

• Richard Mattison was appointed Vice Chair of S&P Global Sustainable1.

• Bryan North-Clauss joined Truv as Chief Revenue Officer.

• Steven Seperson joined YipitData as CFO.

• Jason Singer joined Mesh Payments as Senior Sales Director.

• Greg Sorenson joined Bright Data as Sales Director.

• Malcolm Stockdale joined CFRA as VP, Long Only Sales.

• James Thornton joined Addepar as VP, Chief Data Officer.

• Jason Traxler was promoted to CEO at Stax.

• Mitesh Varsani joined Kpler as Sales Executive, Financial Institutions.

Who’s Hiring

• Gibson Dunn is hiring a Knowledge Management Attorney.

• MDisrupt is hiring a VP of Engineering.

• RBC Capital Markets is hiring a Vice President, Data as a Product (alternative data specialist).

• Zimmerman Advertising is hiring a Manager, Data Strategy.

What I’m reading

• If you're dealing with low frequency equity data, what are some things you should know? by Vivek Viswanathan on LinkedIn.

• 15 things you can do to be in the top 1% of most annoying ChatGPT and AI posters by Vanessa Otero on LinkedIn. Comedy gold.

• Matt Ober’s thoughts on the roll-up opportunity. Follow him on LinkedIn for great content like Post 1, Post 2, and Post 3

*New Company Alert*

Automated Data Inc. (ADI) was founded by Mark Etherington (former CTO at Crux and Global Head of Trading Technology at Refinitiv), Michael Rude (former COO at Crux and Head of Buy-Side Trading Solutions at Refinitiv). Jason Taylor (former Forward Deployed Engineer at Palantir and Head of Data Solutions & Data Engineering at Crux) has also joined the team as Head of Data.

The company is confronting the persistent challenge of data matching (also referred to as entity resolution) with a flexible platform for building, orchestrating, and operating data matching pipelines, supported by enterprise-grade data governance controls. The rockstar team has all seen first-hand the complexities and challenges of data integration caused by data inconsistencies, quality issues, and silos. They are on a mission to help firms solve that problem one match at a time.

For more information, check out their website, or let me know and I’m happy to provide an intro.

*New Product Alert*

ExtractAlpha announced the release of four new tools to help investors make better-informed decisions and improve alpha generations.

• TrueBeats Global is a flagship dataset from ExtractAlpha and has been expanded with a new global version that now covers companies from Europe and Asia. The tool provides EPS and revenue surprise forecasts for thousands of companies worldwide.

• Transcripts Model Asia is an AI-powered solution that analyzes earnings call transcripts from companies based in Asia. This dataset extracts insights and sentiment from company calls and offers access to restricted, in-person events across the region.

• IRP Sentiment Signal provides a measurement of sentiment of Investment Research Provider reports covering Asia Pacific equities, using proprietary NLP of the report text.

• The Estimize Widget is a new widget for Estimize, the company’s crowdsourced platform, that enables website owners to embed and access Estimize’s data directly from their own websites, allowing their site visitors to participate and benefit from crowdsourced estimates.

Upcoming Events

*new events added since last newsletter

• FISD London - June 13, London

• Data Driven NYC with Hebbia AI, Chroma, Grit, and Live Tech Demos - June 13, NYC

• Substantive Research Unbundling Uncovered - June 14, NYC

• StoryIQ Data Storytelling for Business - Virtual - June 15, Virtual

• BCC Group: Market Data in the Cloud - June 22, NYC

• Snowflake Summit - June 26-29, Las Vegas

• *Databricks Data + AI Summit - June 26-29, San Francisco

• FinTech Connect North America - June 27, NYC

• Low-Key Data Conference - July 12, Virtual

• *Low-Key Data Happy Hour - July 13, NYC

• *Something New (hint: expert networks) - let’s see who read this far